The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-10-29

average attendance at the state institutions
was $3.50, and the gross average cost pei
capita SlS0G6. Two thousand seven hun.
bred and four We're discharged, and 237
died during the year.
The exciting political campaign In Bal
Itimore terminated Tuesday with the cleo.
ton of a democratic mayor by majority
of 4,205, a gain of 1000 since the last cleo
ton.
The latest trust" Is the paper.bag In.
teresr, representing 81, 10000 capital.
Up 10 Wednesday there had been from
22j 10 $50 cases of yellow fever AT Tampa
Florida, and "a deaths.
Owing To the Ignorance of the date when
II was 10 be called, the attorney general OF
Kansas failed 10 appear and make an oral
argument In prohibition case which has
attracted considerable attention, and which
was argued on behalf of the liquor dealers
before the United States supreme court
some time since On Wednesday the court
refused his request that he might be al.
lowed 10 make an argument because OF his
failure 10 appear at the proper time.
| The President In "a graceful proclama'
ton set apart Thursday, the 2ith of Nov,
10 be day OF national thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day has become essentially
an American day, and as the years go on Is
more and more celebrated as the festival Of
| h ONE.
Although the public reports about the
condition of Jenny Lind have not been
more unfavorable, privately no hope is en-
tertained Of her recovery. The cause APP
pears 70 be general failure of the vital
powers.
| A telegram received at the King of Bel.
gums palace, Tuesday, brings the news
that Stanley has advanced about seven
hundred and eighty miles since he was
last heard Of, on Aug %. He was in ex.
cellent health.
Last Saturday, at Lincoln Park, Chicago,
a magnificent statue of Abraham Lincoln
Abe" amid great ceremony and large
concourse of people.
The Governor aud State Auditor have
determined on the following rates of state
tax for the year 1887. For general state
purposes 80 mills on each dollar; for state
school purposes, la mills on each dollar I;
aggregating 53 mills on each dollar, or 80
cents on the 800.
A conference of all of the so.called ''la-
Dor" parties has been called 10 meet at St
Louis on December 18th. An attempt Is
to be made to organize another labor party
which shall include all others. Henry
George is to be president, and the advoca-
cy of his doctrines of land cOnfisCation Is
TO be embodied In one plank Of Its plat
form.
The labor party" of Chicago has nomi-
mated Capt. w. =. Black, the anarchists
counsel, for Judge and f. T. Colby for
states attorney. A petition asking Gov.
Oglesby for clemency for the anarchists
was passed by the nominating convention
by a vote of 1852 TO 90 1t recites that the
delegates were not anarchists, but they be.
lieve the execution of the condemned
men, "while satisfying for few days the
insane clamor for blood" will extend and
intensity the bitterness and hate already
existing between the extremes of society.
The National Republican Committee
will meet In Washington December TO fix
place and date for holding the Presiden.
tial convention. Then politics will lead
all other interests.
Hon. Elihu b. Washburne died on Satur.
day afternoon last, of congestion of the
lungs and heart. Mr. Washburne was bone
In Oxford county, Maine, in 1916 of family
OF pure Puritan stock of the Mayflower
tribe. At the age of seventeen, he became
an apprentice In a printing office. Six
years later he graduated from Cambridge
law school with James Russell Lowell,
Hon. VIM M. Evarts, Roland Jones, and
Elk Governor Bullock Moving to Illinois
In 1910, he entered the polical arena, and
In 1852 was elected 10 congress from the
Galena district, as whig, having In 1S4S
been previously beaten by Col. Baker. In
congress he made so excellent record
that he was again In 1854 elected for
second term. Two years later he was again
reelected, again In 1858, and again In 1860,
being sent 70 congress In the latter year by
majority Of 1851. In those dark and
threatening days Mr.. Washburne was
elected term after term, and was soon
notable In the national Legislature for clear
Judgment high purpose, and unswearving
devotion to the interests of the union. He
was also known as close friend and con-
slant companion of President Lincoln. He
held important posts In the house, such as
chairman of the committee on commerce,
and later as chairman of the committee ON
appropriations. He at length became
known as the father of the house." He
thrice swore In Schuyler Colfax as speaker
and once similarly ofliciated for James G.
Blaine. His shrewdness of detection and
implacable opposition to all attacks upon
the public moneys earned for him the
name of the watch. dog of the treasury"
He was one of the first men to discover
Gen. Grant and was always his loyal friend
and supporter. On the election of Gen
Grant to the presidency he became seCre-
tary OF state, but soon resigned on the
advice of his physician. He was then sent
to Paris as minister to France. During the
reign of the commune at the close of the
Franco Prussian war his services 10 human.
ity gained him the grateful thanks of
thousands of individuals as we'll as the Ger
man and other governments. Possessing
the confidence of the French foreign de-
partment, he succeeded In getting the con.
sent Of the authorities of the empire 10
the departure Of all Germans resident In
Paris or elsewhere on French soil If they
desired II. No fewer than thirty thousand
Germans were thus enabled to return to
their country. Under Mr. Washburne the
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